Solo right now. I plan to hire someone in 6 months.
wcs
August 9, 2013, 10:35am
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Take one Day at a Time, you will come out stronger.
Solo & will always be solo.
Hey, I was just wondering how many guys on the board are owner operators still, or prefer it that way, vs how many guys have employees or contractors cleaning for them?
This is not trying to say one way is better than the other at all. Or that one knows more than the other. I am just curious to know what the percentage is out there of guys with employees vs operators.
I started as an owner/operator, after 2 years doing all the work myself I began sub contracting lots of work because I could not handle it all. It just so happens, that the company I was subbing work to had some business and began sub contracting me out too. I got along great with the owner, so we ended up doing a “trial” partnership feeding each other business and splitting it all 50/50. After about 6 months of that business picked up more and we decided to merge our companies. We kept my company name and vision and dissolved his company and bought the trade name to DBA. Since then, every year we have been growing and doing great opening different divisions of our company. Long story short, at this time I have 17 employees and a handful of contractors I work with.
Can we make a poll here? Thanks in advance!
You have an incredible operation. I remember being really impressed by your website when I first saw it a couple of years ago. Gives new people starting out the idea that they could have an operation like yours someday. Rome wasn’t built in a day.
I appreciate the kind words. The cleaning industry turned my life around and I don’t take it for granted.
